Gerard beekman



(No Model.)

G. BEEKMAN. TRANSMITTER 0F FIBROUS MATERIALS.

No. 427,219. Patented May 6, 1890.

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GERARD BEEKMAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SPECIFICATION forming part .of Letters Patent NO. 427,219, dated May 6, 1890. Application filed January 14, 1887. Serial No. 224,331. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GERARD BEEKMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and I useful Improvements in Transmitters for Fibrous Material, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

especially applicable to cotton-harvesters, in which the cotton is picked near the ground and must be continually delivered to a basket or similar receptacle; and the objects of my 3 invention are, first, to provide a transmitter by means of which the fibrous material may be readily conveyed in an inclosed spacefso that no fine particles can escape to clog adjoining machinery; second, to transmit the cotton without injury to its fiber, and without the possibility of contact with oily machinery, and, third, to provide a form of transmitter which shall require a small amount of power to drive it. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of my transmitter. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same through the line 00 a: of Fig. 1.

The transmitter may be a tube, preferably cylindrical, composed of two sections A and B, which fit closely together and have a sliding motion back and forth upon one another. Friction may be decreased, if necessary, by suitable friction-rollers O D E, of which D and E prevent the sections of the tube from coming into-actual contact with one another, and O O prevent them from separating. WVithin the transmitter are arranged elastic points F F, projecting from the side of the section A toward the center, as shownin Fig. 2, and inclined upward toward the same end of the tube as the elastic points F F in one direction, as shown in Fig. 1. From the other section B project similar elastic points G G, preferably flexible, toward the center of the transmitter, as shown in Fig. 2, and these elastic points also have an inclination upone section only is movable.

ward, as shown in Fig. 1. To one or both of these sections is attached suitable mechanism for conveying a reciprocating motion. One means. of accomplishing this result is shown in full lines in Figs. 1 and 2, in which A similar means for reciprocating the other sectionat the same time, if desired, is shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1. I Upon the side of the movable section, B is a slotted projection H, through the slot of which passes the pin J upon the Wheel K.

Rotation being given to this wheel by means of the belt L, the section B will be given a,

longitudinal motion, the length of which will be dependent upon the diameter of the wheel Kl A good result is secured. if the throw of the section B is only about equal to the di-' ameter of the transmitter, as shown in the drawings; but the longer the throw the quicker the transmission.

The lower end of the sectionA is theplace from which the fibrous material is to be conveyed by my transmitter, and I have represented in the drawings, Fig. 1, a basin M, into which cotton may fall from the pickers of a cotton-harvester. If, however, the lower end of the transmitter is inserted into a bin of fibrous material, this basin M may be omitted. At the side nearest the section B this basin M is open and terminates in a series of teeth N, between which pass the lower teeth G. WVhen' reciprocatory action is given to one of the sections D, as aforesaid, the lower end of said section at each stroke will extend below the corresponding section A sufficiently to allow the cotton or fibrous material to come into contact with some of the elastic points G. By this means when the section B moves upward the fibrous material will be drawn within the tube A B a distance corresponding with the length of the upward stroke. Upon the return-stroke the elastic points G will be withdrawn from the cotton or fibrous material in the tube, the cot-ton being hooked upon and held in place in the tube by the elastic points F, projecting from the section A, the points G sliding downward over the surface of the cotton or fibrous material. At the next stroke of the section Bin the direction of its projecting points the cotton will be again carried forward the same distance as before, and upon its return-stroke the cotton will be again left in a higher position in the tube; hence by the continued and rapid reciprocation of the section B the cotton or fibrous material will be carried through the tube formed by the sections A and B in the direction of the elastic points, and will be delivered at the upper end. The same result will be secured if both sections A and B are made to reciprocate in opposite directions. The result may also be obtained by any opposing series of points F and G projecting toward one another and in the direction in which it is desired to transmit the fibrous material, said series having a reciprocating action in respect to one another.

The form shown in the drawings is a simple way of accomplishing the desired result.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. A transmitter for fibrous material, consisting of sections or supports one or more of which are movable longitudinally of the transmitter, inwardly-projecting elastic points secured to the sections or supports and arranged opposite to each other, and means for giving a longitudinal reciprocating motion to the movable sections or supports, substantially as described.

2. A transmitter for fibrous material, consisting of sections one or more of which are movable, having their edges adjacent, inwardly-projecting points upon the interior of said sections the ends of which move longitudinally with the sections in other than two parallel planes, substantially as described.

3. A transmitter for fibrous material, consisting of sections one or more of which are movable, segmental in cross-section, and having their edges adjacent, and radially-projecting points secured upon the interior of said sections, substantially as described.

4. A transmitter-for fibrous material, consisting of a tube composed of two sections, segmental in cross-section, from which sections elastic points project radially inward and toward the same end of the tube, in com bination with suitable mechanism for giving a reciprocatory longitudinal motion to one of said sections in respect to the other, substantially as described.

5. A transmitter for fibrous material, consisting of a tube composed of two sections from which elastic points project inward and toward the same end of the tube, in combination with the rollers C O, which prevent the sections from separating, and the rollers D E, which prevent the sections from coming into actual contact, and with suitable mechanism imparting reciprocating motion to one of said sections, substantially as described.

6. A transmitter for fibrous material, consisting of sections one or more of which are movable, the end of one of which projects beyond the end of the other one, a basin opposite the projecting portion of said section, and teeth upon the inner portion of the basin and upon the interior of said sections, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses, this 12th day of January, 1887. 1

GERARD BEEKMAN.

'Witnesses:

J. E. I-IINDoN HYDE, O. WYLLYS BETTS. 

